Overdispersion of body size in Australian desert lizard communities at local scales only: No evidence for the Narcissus effect

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 561-570

  Rabosky, Daniel L ^a,b   Reid, Julian ^c,d   Cowan, Mark A ^e   Foulkes, Jeff ^f  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^f Department for Environment and Heritage ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Character displacement; Community assembly; Competition; Null model; Regional diversity

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BODY SIZE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; DISPERSION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIZARD; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; LIZARD; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; LIZARDS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

CTENOTUS; NARCISSUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 36448934524     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0849-1     Document Type: Article

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